Surprisingly incoherent and boring

Excellent, Without a doubt!!

Fun premise, good actors, bad writing. This film seemed to have potential at the beginning but it quickly devolves into a trite action film. Ultimately it's very boring.

By the time the dramatic fireworks start popping off, each one feels earned.

Watching Salma Hayek as young Frida did not help for a good start. She was really unconvincing. Overall I am not impressed with her acting and character. She, or more likely the director, failed to show Frida's ambitions, ideology and pain. We are reminded her having! ambitions through her 30-second dialogs with her father but never explaining what they are. We are reminded that she is in constant pain through her saying that she is a bunch of times but we never see it. She is depicted as a ever joyful, sexy woman, who is not a great artist but a spoiled and radical housewife. The Frida shown in the paintings throughout the movie and the Frida they have created are two completely different persons. Also the politics they somehow focused and spear a lot of time do not have any ground for the viewer.It is unfortunate that a movie inspired by a great artist, with such powerful cast is this unappealing.

I have to say, this movie was very well done with Salma Hayek playing as the Mexican uni-brow artist Frida. Before watching this movie, I never heard of Frida but all my life, I've seen the painting she did of herself. Now in 2017, I finally got the chance to find out more about Frida and the story behind the paintings she did while she was alive. Honestly, she died so very young at 47 and it was so sad in the end of this movie, she wasn't able to get out of bed. At least she got to see her exhibition and be able to chat to people before her passing. The bus accident didn't really help her poor body and I suppose the surgeries then weren't as effective as they are now. Salma Hayek was the perfect actress to be playing as Frida and she even looked like her! One of the best roles shes ever done hands down!

The cast was very good, the costumes were wonderful! It is a great movie, biography of Frida Kahlo and has much to offer. It is a true story of passion, pain, strength, courage and above all unstoppable and unselfish love. One can learn facts of Frida Kahlo's life and talent as well as get known with Frida's paintings and their history, something very important. Moreover after seeing this movie I was "stimulated" to look for more things about Frida and other painters. I vote with 8 just because I want to see the movie again to clarify some historical and political facts that I am not so sure about. Generally, it is an absolutely worth-seeing movie and I highly recommend it to everyone.

I'm a "Mexiphile", enamoured of the country, its people, culture, history, and am overwhelmed by both Diego's and Frida's art. Salma's labour of love condensed two supersized lives into two hours which, by sheer necessity, had to paint their entwined lives as metaphorically. We just watched it again for the third time. I like it better every time. Probably a box office failure because it was too gringo for the Mexicans and too Mexican for the gringos, a fine balance which Julie Taymor finessed. I give high marks for the acting, the colours of Mexico, the music by Elliot Goldenthal which also captures the flavours of Mexico. The screen writing is terse, tight, humorous, and human. Learn something about Kahlo, Rivera, the muralist movement, Rivera's osmotic art education in Europe and his panoply of styles before he "rediscovered" Mexico...then watch Frida: a classic work of art.